Christmas in PA

We felt so lucky that we were able to travel to Mimi's house for Christmas in the midst of COVID, and we enjoyed a cozy few days in PA.  The weather was cold and rainy, so we stayed inside and watched movies, played games, read books, and did a jigsaw puzzle.  We also played ping pong: lots and lots of ping pong.  The kids LOVED Mimi's ping pong table and we had numerous tournaments in her basement, but I neglected to take a picture of this.  We watched our church's livestream Christmas Eve service in our pjs (it really was a pandemic perk not to pack fancy dress clothes this year!), and the kids set out a cookie plate for Santa:

Leah took over Daddy's job of reading Twas the Night Before Christmas,

and soon enough, the children were nestled, all snug in their beds!

Luke announced that he set his alarm for 7:00 a.m. on Christmas morning, but Leah beat him to it by waking up at 6:53 and running down the hall to rouse her sleeping brother:

The kids asked for a Nintendo Switch as their big present from Santa, and they hinted to us all month, "Mom and Dad, please let Santa know that he needs to order our Switch on Amazon in plenty of time for Christmas..."  (Even though they are too old to believe in the magic, they should have known that Santa is a planner and ordered their Switch well before Halloween!)

They also received several Switch games and were excited to start playing right away:

Santa also filled everyone's stockings with lots of goodies:

After breakfast, it was time to open presents.  The kids did a great job handing out gifts to everyone and it was a wonderful Christmas day:

Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends!